Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 16:03:22 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: rehsack@liwing.de Cc: l.ertl@univie.ac.at Subject: Re: HTT on single CPU? Message-ID: <20030709.160322.123424797.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <3F0C8F20.6040102@liwing.de> References: <20030709150718.GC28375@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20030709.151856.81408195.imp@bsdimp.com> <3F0C8F20.6040102@liwing.de>
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Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de> writes:
: M. Warner Losh wrote:
:
: > In message: <20030709150718.GC28375@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
: > Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> writes:
: > : P4's below ~3.1GHz do not actually provide logical CPU support.
: >
: > We have several 2.4GHz parts that appear to contradict this
: > statement. However, we can't use HTT w/o a proper motherboard that
: > supports HTT CPUs.
:
: How can I found out whether a board supports HTT or not?
: I haven't seen it in none description I checked. Are some
: chipsets (865, 875) always ready or is the bios programmer
: the guy who must activate this feature?
Boot a SMP kernel. If you get a panic, your board doesn't support
it. :-) We've seen some mobos that just work, while others have
a really ****ed up MPTABLE which makes it hard/impossible for FreeBSD
to support things.
Warner
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